This article can be helpful if couples sit down, talk together and identify their style. Don’t blame any one person, as a style is created by the couple’s interaction. In a sense, you are both actors playing your part. If you can be candid with one another to re-create your part, you can save your marriage before you contemplate divorce.
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Can you build a healthy marriage or life with someone you don’t feel that spark for? YES. Is it easy? NO, but then again, creating a healthy marriage/relationship takes work, and I doubt anyone would say it was easy. I could not say that about life in general as life is about learning all aspects of one’s self and some of those are painful. The “spark” is important for a successful relationship, but don’t abandon a good potential partner just because you don’t see stars when you kiss.
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Humans need love, acceptance and security to grow and evolve. Our relationships are a way of satisfying those human needs. Study after study has shown what happens to babies that are isolated from human love, acceptance and security. We never outgrow that need. To be physically and emotionally alone in a committed relationship is unbearable because the hope of connection is lost. This article offers hope.
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We all want the same thing in a marriage. We want our partner to feel loved, to love us, and to raise healthy, happy children. A simple concept such as being kind to one another can assure you of attaining those three. This article offers 5 suggestions that can improve your relationship immediately.
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Prior to marriage is the best time to go over issues that can potentially sabotage a marriage. Ten of those questions are addressed in this article. Discussing these traits with your potential groom/bride before you walk down the aisle will help protect you from marrying/ or giving tenure to a “Slacker.”
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I have never seen a couple who are happily married who don’t like one another. However, I have seen many divorces where the couple still loves one another, but no longer liked each other. Be engaged, stay aware of your partner’s self growth, and make sure at the end of the day you still like the person you share your bed with.
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You can teach couples by mentoring, using your own marriage (especially parents), and you can teach them by providing pre-marital counseling. Marriage can be the very best lifestyle imaginable or it can be hell on earth. Let’s focus on improving marriages so every child born into one has the assurance of growing up in a healthy marriage where two people loved being married to one another. This article offers help.
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If you are over a certain age and want to get married, it may not be that all the good guys are gone. It may be that you aren’t being honest with yourself. Getting married is a life style, and waiting for perfection in another without looking inside yourself may keep you looking for a long time. When we feel good about ourselves we give up on perfection and embrace love.
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